Dr. Lars Fredrik Stöcker

Lars Fredrik Stöcker is a historian working on the transnational history of Northern, East Central and Eastern Europe and holds a PhD from the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence. His dissertation on oppositional networks across the Baltic Sea during the Cold War was published as a monograph in 2018 in Mark Kramer’s Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series and awarded with the Michael Mitterauer Book Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History in Vienna. Following postdoctoral employments at the University of Tallinn and Uppsala University and a nine-month fellowship at the Imre-Kertész-Kolleg at the University of Jena, he has since 2015 been working at the University of Vienna, currently at the Research Centre for the History of Transformations in the capacity of the PI of the bilateral joint project “A Breach in the System: The ‘Polonia Firms’, 1976-1994”. Focusing on the history of Northeastern Europe in his teaching, he was appointed coordinator for the Baltic Sea Region studies at the Department for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna in 2021 and spent one year as temporary chair for Nordic History at the University of Greifswald in 2023-24.